I think I’ll remember my own LIFE

Today was a tutoring day.  Yay Tutoring Days!  However, I have realized I am terrified of the teachers at this school!  I can’t tell if the kids are really that bad thus forcing the teachers to be super mean…or if it’s more a case of the teachers being super mean so the kids just act back at them.  I’m completely serious!  M and I usually sit at the table in the hallway outside of the library (which I think is the 3rd grade hall).  The entire time we’re there all we hear is the teachers SCREAMING at the kids.  I swear they’re trying to scream them into submission.  I seriously flinched a few times from how loud they were being (the teachers…not the kids), and all I could think was if I was in that class…I’d come home crying everyday from being yelled at.  (I don’t handle people yelling at me very well…I cry very easily when that happens).  I didn’t think the kids were doing anything that really necessitated being screamed at like that (but then again, I couldn’t actually see what they were doing…but I suppose it is entirely possible they were being little beasts).  This school is also known for not having the best record when it comes to academics and even behavior (and it’s a freaking elementary school!).  I guess it’s a typical city school.  But I can’t help but wonder about the teachers.  Did they come into the school thinking they could make a difference and then became jaded by the kids which eventually led to them teaching by screaming?  Or was this the only place they could get a job and it made them bitter from the start.  Because seriously, screaming at them doesn’t seem to be working.  Maybe they should try something else.